Proverbs for the People: Or, Illustrations of Practical Godliness Drawn from the Book of WisdomGould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1849 - 272 páginas |
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... minds in every age and clime can be , and ought to be , subor- dinated to the illustration and enforcement of the doctrines which relate to man's temporal and eternal weal . great CONTENTS . CHAP . I. INTRODUCTORY ; or , The PREFACE . ix.
... minds in every age and clime can be , and ought to be , subor- dinated to the illustration and enforcement of the doctrines which relate to man's temporal and eternal weal . great CONTENTS . CHAP . I. INTRODUCTORY ; or , The PREFACE . ix.
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... mind divine precepts . In subsequent chapters , it will be our purpose to expound a number of the wise preacher's proverbs ; at present , as in- troductory to the series , we will consider their general char- acter , as being pleasing ...
... mind divine precepts . In subsequent chapters , it will be our purpose to expound a number of the wise preacher's proverbs ; at present , as in- troductory to the series , we will consider their general char- acter , as being pleasing ...
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... mind ; he is severe , without being repul- sive , and eminently instructive , without being either frigid or dry . An eminent modern student and translator of Solomon's works , speaks of them as follows : " The great object in each of ...
... mind ; he is severe , without being repul- sive , and eminently instructive , without being either frigid or dry . An eminent modern student and translator of Solomon's works , speaks of them as follows : " The great object in each of ...
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... mind of the Spirit . We are bound to draw practical instruction from the literal meaning of each proverb . It is designed that in this way we should find the greatest variety and the richest abundance . Lord Bacon , in his “ Ad ...
... mind of the Spirit . We are bound to draw practical instruction from the literal meaning of each proverb . It is designed that in this way we should find the greatest variety and the richest abundance . Lord Bacon , in his “ Ad ...
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... mind . " If In the second place , in proverbs we have the most profit- able type of wisdom . Their statements of doctrine may not be so explicit as in some later portions of Scripture , but what they do assert is of the very highest ...
... mind . " If In the second place , in proverbs we have the most profit- able type of wisdom . Their statements of doctrine may not be so explicit as in some later portions of Scripture , but what they do assert is of the very highest ...
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Página 137 - Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Página 74 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Página 138 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry ; her clothing is silk and purple. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
Página 223 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Página 149 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Página 148 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose, renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew ; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs ; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise ; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
Página 121 - If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
Página 96 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with ^cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes ; from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Página 58 - From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty ; As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint; our natures do pursue (Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,) A thirsty evil ; and when we drinK, we die.
Página 180 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.